A few of us continued to drink, and after a while we heard the sound of walking on the floor, followed by the sound of crackling and pulling chairs at the 'door', and they occupied three rooms, but although these people made such a big noise, no one spoke, until the man went in to ask, and then heard a shrill voice say: "What's going on in this room next door, man, I don't let you keep it." ”

"Uncle, that's the case, this is an old patron, I used to like to sit here, I saw that a few uncles haven't come today, I thought you wouldn't come, so I arranged to go in, you said that this person has eaten half of it, and I'm embarrassed to let them move the place, uncle, I'll keep it for you tomorrow." These guys are used to seeing this, so they can handle it easily.

"Forget it, you go, no one is allowed to go in tomorrow, or 'get' us food, no wine, and no 'women'." The shrill voice said.

This voice sounds a little familiar to me, but I can't remember who it is, there are so many eunuchs in the palace, and it is impossible to remember the name, but I feel that this voice seems to be an acquaintance, and when I want to hear it again, the person has stopped talking.

Here Su Mei changed another tune and continued to sing, and Lao Liu, who was watching from the window, left the window and came to me, attached to my ear, and whispered: "Young master, there are many suspicious characters below, you see that the housekeeper is such a 'shrewd' character, so he will not come out, I am afraid that we will have to wait in vain here." ”

"Brother Liu calmed down, wait and talk about it first, they don't necessarily come to the housekeeper, you continue to monitor." I also whispered to Lao Liu.

On both sides of our box were the people who came up just now, there was no sound at all, and I was not in the mood to listen to Su Mei singing, but I just used her singing voice to cover us, if we came to drink 'flower' wine without a girl accompanying and not listening to the music, they would be suspicious.

In order to liven up the atmosphere, Boss Chen also twisted it on the 'girl' child from time to time, the sound of the pipa, coupled with Su Mei's little song, and the cry of the 'girl' child, formed a unique atmosphere, which is also common in brothels, and those people in the next room did not suspect that we had the same purpose as them.

After another half an hour, Lao Liu still didn't find any target, I really couldn't bear to be upset, I called Boss Chen over and whispered: "Brother Chen, no, let's go, there is no result if it goes on like this, I don't like the atmosphere here, maybe you can meet it when you go out for a walk." ”

"Since the young master wants to go back, then let's go out for a walk, and I'll call Lao Liu." After Boss Chen finished speaking, he stood up and came to Lao Liu's side, because he was afraid that the next door would hear it, so he also whispered to Lao Liu's ear. The little girls didn't know what we were doing anyway, and they didn't deliberately avoid them.

At this time, because I am very familiar with the voice next door, I can't speak and signal Boss Chen to say, Boss Chen said to Su Mei, who was still singing: "Okay, don't sing, uncle, I'm tired, you go down, call the guy to come up and settle the bill." ”

A few 'girl' children saw that we didn't want to hear it, and reluctantly stood up, Su Mei was relatively mature among the three of them, Su Mei gave us a blessing and said: "A few masters, are you dissatisfied with a few of us, if you are satisfied, you can stay overnight." "A few of the 'girl' children were staring at us.

Boss Chen looked at me again, I was also embarrassed, it's not that I don't like them, it's just that we didn't come to the brothel for fun, we came to do errands, if it's really okay, it's okay to let Lao Liu and Boss Chen stay overnight, as for me, I can't accept other 'women' except Zihan.

I took out a silver ingot from my sleeve pocket and handed it to Boss Chen, because I couldn't speak, so I had to come forward again.

Boss Chen came to the three 'girl' children, handed the silver to Na Su Mei and said: "A few girls, it's not that I am dissatisfied with you, it's just that my young master comes out, and he will be punished if he goes back late, this ingot of silver is divided between the three of you, don't tell your mother, we will come to you alone in a few days, I don't know if it's okay." ”

This ingot of silver is full of ten taels, and a few of them are only two taels of silver for a night, and one person is more than three taels of silver at once, and there is no need to serve us, if you are lucky, you can continue to pick up a group of guests, of course, such a good thing is very happy, and the three 'girl' children gave us a blessing again, and happily went out of the room.

A few 'girl' children walked for a while, and the guy came up to settle the account, asking for a total of twenty taels of silver, but Boss Chen was reluctant and yelled at the guy: "You are slaughtering people, we didn't stay overnight, and so much silver was used there." ”

The guy leaned against me while arguing: "Masters, our rules here, girl, you call it is yours, as for whether you stay overnight, it is these silvers, so this is the rules of our hotel, and we can't change it." Boss Chen didn't hesitate to rub with him.

When the man leaned against me, his arm leaned against me, he stuffed a note into my hand, I was stunned but did not move, turned around, and took out the note by the lantern hanging on the wall, only to see that it was written: Looking for the shopkeeper. There is a blue word behind it, this is very understandable, the power of the Lan family, in order to avoid suspicion, may find a homophone to replace it, but what is this person looking for me, is this shopkeeper a person from the Lan family. Now I can't find the housekeeper, I'm in danger, let's see you first, Boss Chen is still settling accounts with that guy over there.

I came to Boss Chen and whispered to him: "You just say that you are not satisfied with the charges here, and look for their shopkeeper's theory." ”

Boss Chen didn't know why, but he listened to what I said, and said to the guy: "No, you guys are slanderers, I want to find your shopkeeper's theory." ”

"Okay, you go to our shopkeeper for the same price, now I'll take you there and see how the shopkeeper cleans you up." The guy should have been 'handed over', turned around and walked out, the three of us also followed the guy out of the box, no one on both sides of the box came out to see the excitement, and our noisy noise was not loud, which saved me a lot of worry, I was also worried that they would come out to see the excitement, if they met that familiar voice, it would be troublesome.

Follow the guy to the end of the corridor, and then another staircase leads to the third floor, this staircase is not the main staircase, it is relatively remote, and it is also narrow enough to allow one person to go up, if there is still someone on the other side, one must go back first.

On the third floor, it was not a corridor, but a room 'door', the guy knocked on the 'door' in front, and after a while, the 'door' opened, and the 'door' opened was a 'woman' and 'woman' in her thirties. The woman looked at the three of us and didn't say anything, and then dodged and let the guy go into the house, or we couldn't get in the way of the door, so the woman let us in, and the man went down the stairs again. The 'woman' casually closed the 'door' again: "Say, a few masters sit down first, and I'll call the shopkeeper." ”

Now I took a closer look at the room, this is a living room furnishings, there is another room in it, the room is very simple, just a few chairs, a coffee table, a few calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall. Seeing that the 'woman' entered the back room, a few of us didn't sit down, Boss Chen had already put his hand on the handle of the knife, and Lao Liu whispered: "Young master, how does it feel very strange here, there is still such a room in the Qinglou, it won't be a trap......" ”

I waved my hand to stop Lao Liu, and at this time, the 'woman' who went to the back room walked out again, followed by an old man in his sixties, dressed as a businessman, and after coming out, he first arched his hand and said: "Several guest officers, today's hospitality is not good, the people below don't know the rules, and tonight's silver is free." ”

I also returned the salute, suppressing the doubts in my heart, when he gave me the note, he didn't know that we would be afraid of the high price and have a dispute, did he consciously do this, so that we could come up, but looking at the posture, this person is pretending to be stupid. Since he pretended to be stupid, I pretended not to know and said: "The shopkeeper is polite, just a few dozen taels of silver are trivial, since the shopkeeper is so polite, then we will also pay half." ”

"A few guest officers sit down first, Sanniang, you go and make tea." The old man let us sit down on a chair, and arranged for the 'woman' to make tea, and the 'woman' did not go to the inner room, but went down the stairs directly with the 'door'.

After seeing that my 'woman' was gone, the old man spoke: "Lord Lan, don't come unharmed, I wanted to invite you to come up earlier, but there are secret agents here, I'm sorry, I want to invite you here in this way." ”

Seeing what the old man said, I know that this is an insider, as for whether it is an enemy or a friend, I still don't know, but since people say so, I can't help but say the doubt, I hugged my fists and said: "Shopkeeper, how do you know my identity, and I don't know if the shopkeeper went to great lengths to call us up not to drink tea." ”

The old man coughed twice and said, "Lord Lan, I didn't call you up, my friend asked you to come up, Lord Lan wants to meet my friend?" ”

"Ao, your friend knows me, then ask the shopkeeper to invite your friend out, since we are all here, we don't need to see the head and the end."

"Don't worry, Lord Lan, the old man asked you, you are an official who came to the Qinglou but it is forbidden, you are not afraid of being caught by the imperial historians, if you are involved, your future will be gone." The old man said unhurriedly.

"Shopkeeper, where is my friend you said, can you let me see it?" I actually don't want to talk to him anymore, and I don't know what kind of 'medicine' this old man sells in his gourd.

"Lord Lan, then you can come with me." With that, the old man got up and walked to the inner room, and the three of us followed behind to the inner room. Originally, I was walking behind the old man, Lao Liu pulled me by the hand, Lao Liu came to the front of me, I knew that he was afraid of something wrong, so he did it.